Divorce and Custody: Contemporary Practices: Iran and Afghanistan

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Unequal
divorce
and
custody
rights in Iran and Afghanistan are the main reasons behind the social
system that places men at the head of the household and fathers in
control of children. In effect, many of
the gains women
secured as citizens have been nullified through
family
laws that make their freedom of movement, their desire to
work or study, or to end their marriage subject to the approval of their
husbands. Thus women are rendered subjects rather than partners of their
husbands. While men have had, by religious convention a…